MORBID QUESTION

[John 'n' W.Va]

This is a two room cabin my mother was born in. It is two miles from the nearest road. It was built over a hundred years before my mother was born. 50 yards up the hill is some small tome stones laying down in the leaves.

The cabin area looks to be an awesome place to hunt.. Is the small burial area an old family plot?

No, it was before my family.

Lots of iron.The old iron stove is in pieces everywhere. Old saw blades, horse shoes. gun shells, etc. A few good finds. I found my grandfather's miner's tag.
If I would move the stones out of the cellar there might be something. I hate to do that. I love the old place and don't want to destroy it in the name of treasure hunting. I want to go back and MD it again with a deeper seeking MD'er. A lot of leaf litter over the years. I haven't dug the privy either.

 

[RelicDigger1]

As a general rule, I don't go within 40-50 feet of an obvious graveyard or marked individual grave. That gives me a buffer zone in the event of an unmarked grave.

I've been hunting for 32 years and have never unearthed a human bone. Besides the moral issues, graveyards hold no appeal to me at all because I feel we are not trying to recover what was buried with a loved one, whose grave may or may not be marked. We are trying to recover the history lost through time and the stories the relics can tell us in a woods or field that remain silent otherwise to current and future generations.

My two pence.

Richard

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Philo is looking for your address to send you a contest prize!
He is over at the Christian MD forum.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Anyone metal detecting in any cemetery,especially large public cemetery are going to get in trouble.John I have relatives buried in a small abandon coal town grave between Charleston and Beckley.I have enough respect for my relatives ancestors and people who have loved ones there not to search in that unkempt old graveyard.If I would see someone searching this area a call to Carbon Fuel CO. and Local and State Authorities would be immediate.By the way you are a moron if you metal detect in any grave yard.

 

[twalton]

[size=large][size=medium]Modern grave plots are deeded property, in essence private property. It would be impossible to get permission since the owner occupies the grave. Now, I understand that most would only search next to the roads and paths leading around a cemetery but it would still look drastically out of place and cast a bad reputation on our wonderfull hobby that you could not [i]ever[/i] shake off. We are all looking for that sweet spot that no one else has tried but this aint it folks. Just my opinion for what it's worth this afternoon.
Here is a link to a nearly identical post on the Bounty Hunter Forum: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,727768

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[PAshooter]

Good post twalton. Sums it all up nicely.

[size=large][size=medium]Modern grave plots are deeded property, in essence private property. It would be impossible to get permission since the owner occupies the grave. Now, I understand that most would only search next to the roads and paths leading around a cemetery but it would still look drastically out of place and cast a bad reputation on our wonderfull hobby that you could not [i]ever[/i] shake off. We are all looking for that sweet spot that no one else has tried but this aint it folks. Just my opinion for what it's worth this afternoon.
Here is a link to a nearly identical post on the Bounty Hunter Forum: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,727768

hh, twalton.[/size][/size]

 

[Ron from Michigan]

No excuse for trespassing at grave sites.